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 ChangeLog for PCRE
 ------------------
 
+Version 8.13 30-Apr-2011
+------------------------
+
+1.  The Unicode data tables have been updated to Unicode 6.0.0.
+
+2.  Two minor typos in pcre_internal.h have been fixed.
+
+3.  Added #include <string.h> to pcre_scanner_unittest.cc, pcrecpp.cc, and
+    pcrecpp_unittest.cc. They are needed for strcmp(), memset(), and strchr()
+    in some environments (e.g. Solaris 10/SPARC using Sun Studio 12U2).
+
+4.  There were a number of related bugs in the code for matching backrefences
+    caselessly in UTF-8 mode when codes for the characters concerned were
+    different numbers of bytes. For example, U+023A and U+2C65 are an upper
+    and lower case pair, using 2 and 3 bytes, respectively. The main bugs were:
+    (a) A reference to 3 copies of a 2-byte code matched only 2 of a 3-byte
+    code. (b) A reference to 2 copies of a 3-byte code would not match 2 of a
+    2-byte code at the end of the subject (it thought there wasn't enough data
+    left).
+    
+5.  Comprehensive information about what went wrong is now returned by 
+    pcre_exec() and pcre_dfa_exec() when the UTF-8 string check fails, as long 
+    as the output vector has at least 2 elements. The offset of the start of 
+    the failing character and a reason code are placed in the vector.
+    
+6.  When the UTF-8 string check fails for pcre_compile(), the offset that is 
+    now returned is for the first byte of the failing character, instead of the 
+    last byte inspected. This is an incompatible change, but I hope it is small 
+    enough not to be a problem. It makes the returned offset consistent with
+    pcre_exec() and pcre_dfa_exec().
+    
+7.  pcretest now gives a text phrase as well as the error number when
+    pcre_exec() or pcre_dfa_exec() fails; if the error is a UTF-8 check
+    failure, the offset and reason code are output.
+    
+8.  When \R was used with a maximizing quantifier it failed to skip backwards 
+    over a \r\n pair if the subsequent match failed. Instead, it just skipped
+    back over a single character (\n). This seems wrong (because it treated the 
+    two characters as a single entity when going forwards), conflicts with the
+    documentation that \R is equivalent to (?>\r\n|\n|...etc), and makes the
+    behaviour of \R* different to (\R)*, which also seems wrong. The behaviour 
+    has been changed.
+    
+9.  Some internal refactoring has changed the processing so that the handling 
+    of the PCRE_CASELESS and PCRE_MULTILINE options is done entirely at compile
+    time (the PCRE_DOTALL option was changed this way some time ago: version
+    7.7 change 16). This has made it possible to abolish the OP_OPT op code, 
+    which was always a bit of a fudge. It also means that there is one less 
+    argument for the match() function, which reduces its stack requirements 
+    slightly. This change also fixes an incompatibility with Perl: the pattern
+    (?i:([^b]))(?1) should not match "ab", but previously PCRE gave a match.
+    
+10. More internal refactoring has drastically reduced the number of recursive
+    calls to match() for possessively repeated groups such as (abc)++ when 
+    using pcre_exec().
+    
+11. While implementing 10, a number of bugs in the handling of groups were
+    discovered and fixed:
+    
+    (?<=(a)+) was not diagnosed as invalid (non-fixed-length lookbehind).
+    (a|)*(?1) gave a compile-time internal error.
+    ((a|)+)+  did not notice that the outer group could match an empty string. 
+    (^a|^)+   was not marked as anchored.
+    (.*a|.*)+ was not marked as matching at start or after a newline.  
+    
+12. Yet more internal refactoring has removed another argument from the match()
+    function. Special calls to this function are now indicated by setting a 
+    value in a variable in the "match data" data block. 
+    
+13. Be more explicit in pcre_study() instead of relying on "default" for 
+    opcodes that mean there is no starting character; this means that when new 
+    ones are added and accidentally left out of pcre_study(), testing should 
+    pick them up.
+    
+14. The -s option of pcretest has been documented for ages as being an old 
+    synonym of -m (show memory usage). I have changed it to mean "force study 
+    for every regex", that is, assume /S for every regex. This is similar to -i 
+    and -d etc. It's slightly incompatible, but I'm hoping nobody is still 
+    using it. It makes it easier to run collections of tests with and without
+    study enabled, and thereby test pcre_study() more easily. All the standard 
+    tests are now run with and without -s (but some patterns can be marked as 
+    "never study" - see 20 below).
+    
+15. When (*ACCEPT) was used in a subpattern that was called recursively, the
+    restoration of the capturing data to the outer values was not happening 
+    correctly.
+    
+16. If a recursively called subpattern ended with (*ACCEPT) and matched an
+    empty string, and PCRE_NOTEMPTY was set, pcre_exec() thought the whole
+    pattern had matched an empty string, and so incorrectly returned a no
+    match.
+    
+17. There was optimizing code for the last branch of non-capturing parentheses,
+    and also for the obeyed branch of a conditional subexpression, which used 
+    tail recursion to cut down on stack usage. Unfortunately, not that there is 
+    the possibility of (*THEN) occurring in these branches, tail recursion is 
+    no longer possible because the return has to be checked for (*THEN). These 
+    two optimizations have therefore been removed.  
+    
+18. If a pattern containing \R was studied, it was assumed that \R always
+    matched two bytes, thus causing the minimum subject length to be
+    incorrectly computed because \R can also match just one byte.
+    
+19. If a pattern containing (*ACCEPT) was studied, the minimum subject length
+    was incorrectly computed. 
+    
+20. If /S is present twice on a test pattern in pcretest input, it *disables*
+    studying, thereby overriding the use of -s on the command line. This is
+    necessary for one or two tests to keep the output identical in both cases. 
+    
+21. When (*ACCEPT) was used in an assertion that matched an empty string and
+    PCRE_NOTEMPTY was set, PCRE applied the non-empty test to the assertion. 
+    
+22. When an atomic group that contained a capturing parenthesis was 
+    successfully matched, but the branch in which it appeared failed, the 
+    capturing was not being forgotten if a higher numbered group was later 
+    captured. For example, /(?>(a))b|(a)c/ when matching "ac" set capturing
+    group 1 to "a", when in fact it should be unset. This applied to multi-
+    branched capturing and non-capturing groups, repeated or not, and also to 
+    positive assertions (capturing in negative assertions is not well defined 
+    in PCRE) and also to nested atomic groups. 
+    
+23. Add the ++ qualifier feature to pcretest, to show the remainder of the 
+    subject after a captured substring (to make it easier to tell which of a 
+    number of identical substrings has been captured).
+    
+24. The way atomic groups are processed by pcre_exec() has been changed so that
+    if they are repeated, backtracking one repetition now resets captured 
+    values correctly. For example, if ((?>(a+)b)+aabab) is matched against
+    "aaaabaaabaabab" the value of captured group 2 is now correctly recorded as 
+    "aaa". Previously, it would have been "a". As part of this code 
+    refactoring, the way recursive calls are handled has also been changed.
+    
+24. If an assertion condition captured any substrings, they were not passed 
+    back unless some other capturing happened later. For example, if
+    (?(?=(a))a) was matched against "a", no capturing was returned.
+    
+25. When studying a pattern that contained subroutine calls or assertions,
+    the code for finding the minimum length of a possible match was handling 
+    direct recursions such as (xxx(?1)|yyy) but not mutual recursions (where 
+    group 1 called group 2 while simultaneously a separate group 2 called group
+    1). A stack overflow occurred in this case. I have fixed this by limiting
+    the recursion depth to 10.
+    
+26. Updated RunTest.bat in the distribution to the version supplied by Tom
+    Fortmann. This supports explicit test numbers on the command line, and has
+    argument validation and error reporting.
+    
+27. An instance of \X with an unlimited repeat could fail if at any point the 
+    first character it looked at was a mark character. 
+    
+28. Some minor code refactoring concerning Unicode properties and scripts 
+    should reduce the stack requirement of match() slightly. 
+    
+29. Added the '=' option to pcretest to check the setting of unused capturing
+    slots at the end of the pattern, which are documented as being -1, but are
+    not included in the return count.  
+    
+30. If \k was not followed by a braced, angle-bracketed, or quoted name, PCRE
+    compiled something random. Now it gives a compile-time error (as does 
+    Perl). 
+    
+31. A *MARK encountered during the processing of a positive assertion is now
+    recorded and passed back (compatible with Perl). 
+    
+32. If --only-matching or --colour was set on a pcregrep call whose pattern
+    had alternative anchored branches, the search for a second match in a line
+    was done as if at the line start. Thus, for example, /^01|^02/ incorrectly
+    matched the line "0102" twice. The same bug affected patterns that started
+    with a backwards assertion. For example /\b01|\b02/ also matched "0102"
+    twice. 
+    
+33. Previously, PCRE did not allow quantification of assertions. However, Perl 
+    does, and because of capturing effects, quantifying parenthesized 
+    assertions may at times be useful. Quantifiers are now allowed for 
+    parenthesized assertions.
+    
+34. A minor code tidy in pcre_compile() when checking options for \R usage. 
+
+35. \g was being checked for fancy things in a character class, when it should
+    just be a literal "g".
+    
+36. PCRE was rejecting [:a[:digit:]] whereas Perl was not. It seems that the
+    appearance of a nested POSIX class supersedes an apparent external class.
+    For example, [:a[:digit:]b:] matches "a", "b", ":", or a digit. Also,
+    unescaped square brackets may also appear as part of class names. For
+    example, [:a[:abc]b:] gives unknown class "[:abc]b:]". PCRE now behaves 
+    more like Perl.
+    
+37. PCRE was giving an error for \N with a braced quantifier such as {1,} (this 
+    was because it thought it was \N{name}, which is not supported).
+    
+38. Add minix to OS list not supporting the -S option in pcretest. 
+
+39. PCRE tries to detect cases of infinite recursion at compile time, but it
+    cannot analyze patterns in sufficient detail to catch mutual recursions
+    such as ((?1))((?2)). There is now a runtime test that gives an error if a 
+    subgroup is called recursively as a subpattern for a second time at the 
+    same position in the subject string. In previous releases this might have
+    been caught by the recursion limit, or it might have run out of stack. 
+    
+40. A pattern such as /(?(R)a+|(?R)b)/ is quite safe, as the recursion can
+    happen only once. PCRE was, however incorrectly giving a compile time error 
+    "recursive call could loop indefinitely" because it cannot analyze the 
+    pattern in sufficient detail. The compile time test no longer happens when 
+    PCRE is compiling a conditional subpattern, but actual runaway loops are 
+    now caught at runtime (see 39 above).   
+    
+41. It seems that Perl allows any characters other than a closing parenthesis
+    to be part of the NAME in (*MARK:NAME) and other backtracking verbs. PCRE 
+    has been changed to be the same. 
+    
+42. Updated configure.ac to put in more quoting round AC_LANG_PROGRAM etc. so
+    as not to get warnings when autogen.sh is called. Also changed 
+    AC_PROG_LIBTOOL (deprecated) to LT_INIT (the current macro).
+    
+43. To help people who use pcregrep to scan files containing exceedingly long 
+    lines, the following changes have been made:
+    
+    (a) The default value of the buffer size parameter has been increased from
+        8K to 20K. (A buffer three times this size is actually used.)
+        
+    (b) The default can be changed by ./configure --with-pcregrep-bufsiz when
+        PCRE is built.
+        
+    (c) A --buffer-size=n option has been added to pcregrep, to allow the size
+        to be set at run time.
+        
+    (d) Numerical values in pcregrep options can be followed by K or M, for
+        example --buffer-size=50K.
+        
+    (e) If a line being scanned overflows pcregrep's buffer, an error is now 
+        given and the return code is set to 2.
+        
+44. Add a pointer to the latest mark to the callout data block. 
+
+
+Version 8.12 15-Jan-2011
+------------------------
+
+1.  Fixed some typos in the markup of the man pages, and wrote a script that
+    checks for such things as part of the documentation building process.
+
+2.  On a big-endian 64-bit system, pcregrep did not correctly process the
+    --match-limit and --recursion-limit options (added for 8.11). In
+    particular, this made one of the standard tests fail. (The integer value
+    went into the wrong half of a long int.)
+
+3.  If the --colour option was given to pcregrep with -v (invert match), it
+    did strange things, either producing crazy output, or crashing. It should,
+    of course, ignore a request for colour when reporting lines that do not
+    match.
+
+4.  Another pcregrep bug caused similar problems if --colour was specified with
+    -M (multiline) and the pattern match finished with a line ending.
+
+5.  In pcregrep, when a pattern that ended with a literal newline sequence was
+    matched in multiline mode, the following line was shown as part of the
+    match. This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
+
+6.  Another pcregrep bug in multiline mode, when --colour was specified, caused
+    the check for further matches in the same line (so they could be coloured)
+    to overrun the end of the current line. If another match was found, it was
+    incorrectly shown (and then shown again when found in the next line).
+
+7.  If pcregrep was compiled under Windows, there was a reference to the
+    function pcregrep_exit() before it was defined. I am assuming this was
+    the cause of the "error C2371: 'pcregrep_exit' : redefinition;" that was
+    reported by a user. I've moved the definition above the reference.
+
+
+Version 8.11 10-Dec-2010
+------------------------
+
+1.  (*THEN) was not working properly if there were untried alternatives prior
+    to it in the current branch. For example, in ((a|b)(*THEN)(*F)|c..) it
+    backtracked to try for "b" instead of moving to the next alternative branch
+    at the same level (in this case, to look for "c"). The Perl documentation
+    is clear that when (*THEN) is backtracked onto, it goes to the "next
+    alternative in the innermost enclosing group".
+
+2.  (*COMMIT) was not overriding (*THEN), as it does in Perl. In a pattern
+    such as   (A(*COMMIT)B(*THEN)C|D)  any failure after matching A should
+    result in overall failure. Similarly, (*COMMIT) now overrides (*PRUNE) and
+    (*SKIP), (*SKIP) overrides (*PRUNE) and (*THEN), and (*PRUNE) overrides
+    (*THEN).
+
+3.  If \s appeared in a character class, it removed the VT character from
+    the class, even if it had been included by some previous item, for example
+    in [\x00-\xff\s]. (This was a bug related to the fact that VT is not part
+    of \s, but is part of the POSIX "space" class.)
+
+4.  A partial match never returns an empty string (because you can always
+    match an empty string at the end of the subject); however the checking for
+    an empty string was starting at the "start of match" point. This has been
+    changed to the "earliest inspected character" point, because the returned
+    data for a partial match starts at this character. This means that, for
+    example, /(?<=abc)def/ gives a partial match for the subject "abc"
+    (previously it gave "no match").
+
+5.  Changes have been made to the way PCRE_PARTIAL_HARD affects the matching
+    of $, \z, \Z, \b, and \B. If the match point is at the end of the string,
+    previously a full match would be given. However, setting PCRE_PARTIAL_HARD
+    has an implication that the given string is incomplete (because a partial
+    match is preferred over a full match). For this reason, these items now
+    give a partial match in this situation. [Aside: previously, the one case
+    /t\b/ matched against "cat" with PCRE_PARTIAL_HARD set did return a partial
+    match rather than a full match, which was wrong by the old rules, but is
+    now correct.]
+
+6.  There was a bug in the handling of #-introduced comments, recognized when
+    PCRE_EXTENDED is set, when PCRE_NEWLINE_ANY and PCRE_UTF8 were also set.
+    If a UTF-8 multi-byte character included the byte 0x85 (e.g. +U0445, whose
+    UTF-8 encoding is 0xd1,0x85), this was misinterpreted as a newline when
+    scanning for the end of the comment. (*Character* 0x85 is an "any" newline,
+    but *byte* 0x85 is not, in UTF-8 mode). This bug was present in several
+    places in pcre_compile().
+
+7.  Related to (6) above, when pcre_compile() was skipping #-introduced
+    comments when looking ahead for named forward references to subpatterns,
+    the only newline sequence it recognized was NL. It now handles newlines
+    according to the set newline convention.
+
+8.  SunOS4 doesn't have strerror() or strtoul(); pcregrep dealt with the
+    former, but used strtoul(), whereas pcretest avoided strtoul() but did not
+    cater for a lack of strerror(). These oversights have been fixed.
+
+9.  Added --match-limit and --recursion-limit to pcregrep.
+
+10. Added two casts needed to build with Visual Studio when NO_RECURSE is set.
+
+11. When the -o option was used, pcregrep was setting a return code of 1, even
+    when matches were found, and --line-buffered was not being honoured.
+
+12. Added an optional parentheses number to the -o and --only-matching options
+    of pcregrep.
+
+13. Imitating Perl's /g action for multiple matches is tricky when the pattern
+    can match an empty string. The code to do it in pcretest and pcredemo
+    needed fixing:
+
+    (a) When the newline convention was "crlf", pcretest got it wrong, skipping
+        only one byte after an empty string match just before CRLF (this case
+        just got forgotten; "any" and "anycrlf" were OK).
+
+    (b) The pcretest code also had a bug, causing it to loop forever in UTF-8
+        mode when an empty string match preceded an ASCII character followed by
+        a non-ASCII character. (The code for advancing by one character rather
+        than one byte was nonsense.)
+
+    (c) The pcredemo.c sample program did not have any code at all to handle
+        the cases when CRLF is a valid newline sequence.
+
+14. Neither pcre_exec() nor pcre_dfa_exec() was checking that the value given
+    as a starting offset was within the subject string. There is now a new
+    error, PCRE_ERROR_BADOFFSET, which is returned if the starting offset is
+    negative or greater than the length of the string. In order to test this,
+    pcretest is extended to allow the setting of negative starting offsets.
+
+15. In both pcre_exec() and pcre_dfa_exec() the code for checking that the
+    starting offset points to the beginning of a UTF-8 character was
+    unnecessarily clumsy. I tidied it up.
+
+16. Added PCRE_ERROR_SHORTUTF8 to make it possible to distinguish between a
+    bad UTF-8 sequence and one that is incomplete when using PCRE_PARTIAL_HARD.
+
+17. Nobody had reported that the --include_dir option, which was added in
+    release 7.7 should have been called --include-dir (hyphen, not underscore)
+    for compatibility with GNU grep. I have changed it to --include-dir, but
+    left --include_dir as an undocumented synonym, and the same for
+    --exclude-dir, though that is not available in GNU grep, at least as of
+    release 2.5.4.
+
+18. At a user's suggestion, the macros GETCHAR and friends (which pick up UTF-8
+    characters from a string of bytes) have been redefined so as not to use
+    loops, in order to improve performance in some environments. At the same
+    time, I abstracted some of the common code into auxiliary macros to save
+    repetition (this should not affect the compiled code).
+
+19. If \c was followed by a multibyte UTF-8 character, bad things happened. A
+    compile-time error is now given if \c is not followed by an ASCII
+    character, that is, a byte less than 128. (In EBCDIC mode, the code is
+    different, and any byte value is allowed.)
+
+20. Recognize (*NO_START_OPT) at the start of a pattern to set the PCRE_NO_
+    START_OPTIMIZE option, which is now allowed at compile time - but just
+    passed through to pcre_exec() or pcre_dfa_exec(). This makes it available
+    to pcregrep and other applications that have no direct access to PCRE
+    options. The new /Y option in pcretest sets this option when calling
+    pcre_compile().
+
+21. Change 18 of release 8.01 broke the use of named subpatterns for recursive
+    back references. Groups containing recursive back references were forced to
+    be atomic by that change, but in the case of named groups, the amount of
+    memory required was incorrectly computed, leading to "Failed: internal
+    error: code overflow". This has been fixed.
+
+22. Some patches to pcre_stringpiece.h, pcre_stringpiece_unittest.cc, and
+    pcretest.c, to avoid build problems in some Borland environments.
+
+
+Version 8.10 25-Jun-2010
+------------------------
+
+1.  Added support for (*MARK:ARG) and for ARG additions to PRUNE, SKIP, and
+    THEN.
+
+2.  (*ACCEPT) was not working when inside an atomic group.
+
+3.  Inside a character class, \B is treated as a literal by default, but
+    faulted if PCRE_EXTRA is set. This mimics Perl's behaviour (the -w option
+    causes the error). The code is unchanged, but I tidied the documentation.
+
+4.  Inside a character class, PCRE always treated \R and \X as literals,
+    whereas Perl faults them if its -w option is set. I have changed PCRE so
+    that it faults them when PCRE_EXTRA is set.
+
+5.  Added support for \N, which always matches any character other than
+    newline. (It is the same as "." when PCRE_DOTALL is not set.)
+
+6.  When compiling pcregrep with newer versions of gcc which may have
+    FORTIFY_SOURCE set, several warnings "ignoring return value of 'fwrite',
+    declared with attribute warn_unused_result" were given. Just casting the
+    result to (void) does not stop the warnings; a more elaborate fudge is
+    needed. I've used a macro to implement this.
+
+7.  Minor change to pcretest.c to avoid a compiler warning.
+
+8.  Added four artifical Unicode properties to help with an option to make
+    \s etc use properties (see next item). The new properties are: Xan
+    (alphanumeric), Xsp (Perl space), Xps (POSIX space), and Xwd (word).
+
+9.  Added PCRE_UCP to make \b, \d, \s, \w, and certain POSIX character classes
+    use Unicode properties. (*UCP) at the start of a pattern can be used to set
+    this option. Modified pcretest to add /W to test this facility. Added
+    REG_UCP to make it available via the POSIX interface.
+
+10. Added --line-buffered to pcregrep.
+
+11. In UTF-8 mode, if a pattern that was compiled with PCRE_CASELESS was
+    studied, and the match started with a letter with a code point greater than
+    127 whose first byte was different to the first byte of the other case of
+    the letter, the other case of this starting letter was not recognized
+    (#976).
+
+12. If a pattern that was studied started with a repeated Unicode property
+    test, for example, \p{Nd}+, there was the theoretical possibility of
+    setting up an incorrect bitmap of starting bytes, but fortunately it could
+    not have actually happened in practice until change 8 above was made (it
+    added property types that matched character-matching opcodes).
+
+13. pcre_study() now recognizes \h, \v, and \R when constructing a bit map of
+    possible starting bytes for non-anchored patterns.
+
+14. Extended the "auto-possessify" feature of pcre_compile(). It now recognizes
+    \R, and also a number of cases that involve Unicode properties, both
+    explicit and implicit when PCRE_UCP is set.
+
+15. If a repeated Unicode property match (e.g. \p{Lu}*) was used with non-UTF-8
+    input, it could crash or give wrong results if characters with values
+    greater than 0xc0 were present in the subject string. (Detail: it assumed
+    UTF-8 input when processing these items.)
+
+16. Added a lot of (int) casts to avoid compiler warnings in systems where
+    size_t is 64-bit (#991).
+
+17. Added a check for running out of memory when PCRE is compiled with
+    --disable-stack-for-recursion (#990).
+
+18. If the last data line in a file for pcretest does not have a newline on
+    the end, a newline was missing in the output.
+
+19. The default pcre_chartables.c file recognizes only ASCII characters (values
+    less than 128) in its various bitmaps. However, there is a facility for
+    generating tables according to the current locale when PCRE is compiled. It
+    turns out that in some environments, 0x85 and 0xa0, which are Unicode space
+    characters, are recognized by isspace() and therefore were getting set in
+    these tables, and indeed these tables seem to approximate to ISO 8859. This
+    caused a problem in UTF-8 mode when pcre_study() was used to create a list
+    of bytes that can start a match. For \s, it was including 0x85 and 0xa0,
+    which of course cannot start UTF-8 characters. I have changed the code so
+    that only real ASCII characters (less than 128) and the correct starting
+    bytes for UTF-8 encodings are set for characters greater than 127 when in
+    UTF-8 mode. (When PCRE_UCP is set - see 9 above - the code is different
+    altogether.)
+
+20. Added the /T option to pcretest so as to be able to run tests with non-
+    standard character tables, thus making it possible to include the tests
+    used for 19 above in the standard set of tests.
+
+21. A pattern such as (?&t)(?#()(?(DEFINE)(?<t>a)) which has a forward
+    reference to a subpattern the other side of a comment that contains an
+    opening parenthesis caused either an internal compiling error, or a
+    reference to the wrong subpattern.
+
+
+Version 8.02 19-Mar-2010
+------------------------
+
+1.  The Unicode data tables have been updated to Unicode 5.2.0.
+
+2.  Added the option --libs-cpp to pcre-config, but only when C++ support is
+    configured.
+
+3.  Updated the licensing terms in the pcregexp.pas file, as agreed with the
+    original author of that file, following a query about its status.
+
+4.  On systems that do not have stdint.h (e.g. Solaris), check for and include
+    inttypes.h instead. This fixes a bug that was introduced by change 8.01/8.
+
+5.  A pattern such as (?&t)*+(?(DEFINE)(?<t>.)) which has a possessive
+    quantifier applied to a forward-referencing subroutine call, could compile
+    incorrect code or give the error "internal error: previously-checked
+    referenced subpattern not found".
+
+6.  Both MS Visual Studio and Symbian OS have problems with initializing
+    variables to point to external functions. For these systems, therefore,
+    pcre_malloc etc. are now initialized to local functions that call the
+    relevant global functions.
+
+7.  There were two entries missing in the vectors called coptable and poptable
+    in pcre_dfa_exec.c. This could lead to memory accesses outsize the vectors.
+    I've fixed the data, and added a kludgy way of testing at compile time that
+    the lengths are correct (equal to the number of opcodes).
+
+8.  Following on from 7, I added a similar kludge to check the length of the
+    eint vector in pcreposix.c.
+
+9.  Error texts for pcre_compile() are held as one long string to avoid too
+    much relocation at load time. To find a text, the string is searched,
+    counting zeros. There was no check for running off the end of the string,
+    which could happen if a new error number was added without updating the
+    string.
+
+10. \K gave a compile-time error if it appeared in a lookbehind assersion.
+
+11. \K was not working if it appeared in an atomic group or in a group that
+    was called as a "subroutine", or in an assertion. Perl 5.11 documents that
+    \K is "not well defined" if used in an assertion. PCRE now accepts it if
+    the assertion is positive, but not if it is negative.
+
+12. Change 11 fortuitously reduced the size of the stack frame used in the
+    "match()" function of pcre_exec.c by one pointer. Forthcoming
+    implementation of support for (*MARK) will need an extra pointer on the
+    stack; I have reserved it now, so that the stack frame size does not
+    decrease.
+
+13. A pattern such as (?P<L1>(?P<L2>0)|(?P>L2)(?P>L1)) in which the only other
+    item in branch that calls a recursion is a subroutine call - as in the
+    second branch in the above example - was incorrectly given the compile-
+    time error "recursive call could loop indefinitely" because pcre_compile()
+    was not correctly checking the subroutine for matching a non-empty string.
+
+14. The checks for overrunning compiling workspace could trigger after an
+    overrun had occurred. This is a "should never occur" error, but it can be
+    triggered by pathological patterns such as hundreds of nested parentheses.
+    The checks now trigger 100 bytes before the end of the workspace.
+
+15. Fix typo in configure.ac: "srtoq" should be "strtoq".
+
+
+Version 8.01 19-Jan-2010
+------------------------
+
+1.  If a pattern contained a conditional subpattern with only one branch (in
+    particular, this includes all (*DEFINE) patterns), a call to pcre_study()
+    computed the wrong minimum data length (which is of course zero for such
+    subpatterns). This could cause incorrect "no match" results.
+
+2.  For patterns such as (?i)a(?-i)b|c where an option setting at the start of
+    the pattern is reset in the first branch, pcre_compile() failed with
+    "internal error: code overflow at offset...". This happened only when
+    the reset was to the original external option setting. (An optimization
+    abstracts leading options settings into an external setting, which was the
+    cause of this.)
+
+3.  A pattern such as ^(?!a(*SKIP)b) where a negative assertion contained one
+    of the verbs SKIP, PRUNE, or COMMIT, did not work correctly. When the
+    assertion pattern did not match (meaning that the assertion was true), it
+    was incorrectly treated as false if the SKIP had been reached during the
+    matching. This also applied to assertions used as conditions.
+
+4.  If an item that is not supported by pcre_dfa_exec() was encountered in an
+    assertion subpattern, including such a pattern used as a condition,
+    unpredictable results occurred, instead of the error return
+    PCRE_ERROR_DFA_UITEM.
+
+5.  The C++ GlobalReplace function was not working like Perl for the special
+    situation when an empty string is matched. It now does the fancy magic
+    stuff that is necessary.
+
+6.  In pcre_internal.h, obsolete includes to setjmp.h and stdarg.h have been
+    removed. (These were left over from very, very early versions of PCRE.)
+
+7.  Some cosmetic changes to the code to make life easier when compiling it
+    as part of something else:
+
+    (a) Change DEBUG to PCRE_DEBUG.
+
+    (b) In pcre_compile(), rename the member of the "branch_chain" structure
+        called "current" as "current_branch", to prevent a collision with the
+        Linux macro when compiled as a kernel module.
+
+    (c) In pcre_study(), rename the function set_bit() as set_table_bit(), to
+        prevent a collision with the Linux macro when compiled as a kernel
+        module.
+
+8.  In pcre_compile() there are some checks for integer overflows that used to
+    cast potentially large values to (double). This has been changed to that
+    when building, a check for int64_t is made, and if it is found, it is used
+    instead, thus avoiding the use of floating point arithmetic. (There is no
+    other use of FP in PCRE.) If int64_t is not found, the fallback is to
+    double.
+
+9.  Added two casts to avoid signed/unsigned warnings from VS Studio Express
+    2005 (difference between two addresses compared to an unsigned value).
+
+10. Change the standard AC_CHECK_LIB test for libbz2 in configure.ac to a
+    custom one, because of the following reported problem in Windows:
+
+      - libbz2 uses the Pascal calling convention (WINAPI) for the functions
+          under Win32.
+      - The standard autoconf AC_CHECK_LIB fails to include "bzlib.h",
+          therefore missing the function definition.
+      - The compiler thus generates a "C" signature for the test function.
+      - The linker fails to find the "C" function.
+      - PCRE fails to configure if asked to do so against libbz2.
+
+11. When running libtoolize from libtool-2.2.6b as part of autogen.sh, these
+    messages were output:
+
+      Consider adding `AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])' to configure.ac and
+      rerunning libtoolize, to keep the correct libtool macros in-tree.
+      Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am.
+
+    I have done both of these things.
+
+12. Although pcre_dfa_exec() does not use nearly as much stack as pcre_exec()
+    most of the time, it *can* run out if it is given a pattern that contains a
+    runaway infinite recursion. I updated the discussion in the pcrestack man
+    page.
+
+13. Now that we have gone to the x.xx style of version numbers, the minor
+    version may start with zero. Using 08 or 09 is a bad idea because users
+    might check the value of PCRE_MINOR in their code, and 08 or 09 may be
+    interpreted as invalid octal numbers. I've updated the previous comment in
+    configure.ac, and also added a check that gives an error if 08 or 09 are
+    used.
+
+14. Change 8.00/11 was not quite complete: code had been accidentally omitted,
+    causing partial matching to fail when the end of the subject matched \W
+    in a UTF-8 pattern where \W was quantified with a minimum of 3.
+
+15. There were some discrepancies between the declarations in pcre_internal.h
+    of _pcre_is_newline(), _pcre_was_newline(), and _pcre_valid_utf8() and
+    their definitions. The declarations used "const uschar *" and the
+    definitions used USPTR. Even though USPTR is normally defined as "const
+    unsigned char *" (and uschar is typedeffed as "unsigned char"), it was
+    reported that: "This difference in casting confuses some C++ compilers, for
+    example, SunCC recognizes above declarations as different functions and
+    generates broken code for hbpcre." I have changed the declarations to use
+    USPTR.
+
+16. GNU libtool is named differently on some systems. The autogen.sh script now
+    tries several variants such as glibtoolize (MacOSX) and libtoolize1x
+    (FreeBSD).
+
+17. Applied Craig's patch that fixes an HP aCC compile error in pcre 8.00
+    (strtoXX undefined when compiling pcrecpp.cc). The patch contains this
+    comment: "Figure out how to create a longlong from a string: strtoll and
+    equivalent. It's not enough to call AC_CHECK_FUNCS: hpux has a strtoll, for
+    instance, but it only takes 2 args instead of 3!"
+
+18. A subtle bug concerned with back references has been fixed by a change of
+    specification, with a corresponding code fix. A pattern such as
+    ^(xa|=?\1a)+$ which contains a back reference inside the group to which it
+    refers, was giving matches when it shouldn't. For example, xa=xaaa would
+    match that pattern. Interestingly, Perl (at least up to 5.11.3) has the
+    same bug. Such groups have to be quantified to be useful, or contained
+    inside another quantified group. (If there's no repetition, the reference
+    can never match.) The problem arises because, having left the group and
+    moved on to the rest of the pattern, a later failure that backtracks into
+    the group uses the captured value from the final iteration of the group
+    rather than the correct earlier one. I have fixed this in PCRE by forcing
+    any group that contains a reference to itself to be an atomic group; that
+    is, there cannot be any backtracking into it once it has completed. This is
+    similar to recursive and subroutine calls.
+
+
+Version 8.00 19-Oct-09
+----------------------
+
+1.  The table for translating pcre_compile() error codes into POSIX error codes
+    was out-of-date, and there was no check on the pcre_compile() error code
+    being within the table. This could lead to an OK return being given in
+    error.
+
+2.  Changed the call to open a subject file in pcregrep from fopen(pathname,
+    "r") to fopen(pathname, "rb"), which fixed a problem with some of the tests
+    in a Windows environment.
+
+3.  The pcregrep --count option prints the count for each file even when it is
+    zero, as does GNU grep. However, pcregrep was also printing all files when
+    --files-with-matches was added. Now, when both options are given, it prints
+    counts only for those files that have at least one match. (GNU grep just
+    prints the file name in this circumstance, but including the count seems
+    more useful - otherwise, why use --count?) Also ensured that the
+    combination -clh just lists non-zero counts, with no names.
+
+4.  The long form of the pcregrep -F option was incorrectly implemented as
+    --fixed_strings instead of --fixed-strings. This is an incompatible change,
+    but it seems right to fix it, and I didn't think it was worth preserving
+    the old behaviour.
+
+5.  The command line items --regex=pattern and --regexp=pattern were not
+    recognized by pcregrep, which required --regex pattern or --regexp pattern
+    (with a space rather than an '='). The man page documented the '=' forms,
+    which are compatible with GNU grep; these now work.
+
+6.  No libpcreposix.pc file was created for pkg-config; there was just
+    libpcre.pc and libpcrecpp.pc. The omission has been rectified.
+
+7.  Added #ifndef SUPPORT_UCP into the pcre_ucd.c module, to reduce its size
+    when UCP support is not needed, by modifying the Python script that
+    generates it from Unicode data files. This should not matter if the module
+    is correctly used as a library, but I received one complaint about 50K of
+    unwanted data. My guess is that the person linked everything into his
+    program rather than using a library. Anyway, it does no harm.
+
+8.  A pattern such as /\x{123}{2,2}+/8 was incorrectly compiled; the trigger
+    was a minimum greater than 1 for a wide character in a possessive
+    repetition. The same bug could also affect patterns like /(\x{ff}{0,2})*/8
+    which had an unlimited repeat of a nested, fixed maximum repeat of a wide
+    character. Chaos in the form of incorrect output or a compiling loop could
+    result.
+
+9.  The restrictions on what a pattern can contain when partial matching is
+    requested for pcre_exec() have been removed. All patterns can now be
+    partially matched by this function. In addition, if there are at least two
+    slots in the offset vector, the offset of the earliest inspected character
+    for the match and the offset of the end of the subject are set in them when
+    PCRE_ERROR_PARTIAL is returned.
+
+10. Partial matching has been split into two forms: PCRE_PARTIAL_SOFT, which is
+    synonymous with PCRE_PARTIAL, for backwards compatibility, and
+    PCRE_PARTIAL_HARD, which causes a partial match to supersede a full match,
+    and may be more useful for multi-segment matching.
+
+11. Partial matching with pcre_exec() is now more intuitive. A partial match
+    used to be given if ever the end of the subject was reached; now it is
+    given only if matching could not proceed because another character was
+    needed. This makes a difference in some odd cases such as Z(*FAIL) with the
+    string "Z", which now yields "no match" instead of "partial match". In the
+    case of pcre_dfa_exec(), "no match" is given if every matching path for the
+    final character ended with (*FAIL).
+
+12. Restarting a match using pcre_dfa_exec() after a partial match did not work
+    if the pattern had a "must contain" character that was already found in the
+    earlier partial match, unless partial matching was again requested. For
+    example, with the pattern /dog.(body)?/, the "must contain" character is
+    "g". If the first part-match was for the string "dog", restarting with
+    "sbody" failed. This bug has been fixed.
+
+13. The string returned by pcre_dfa_exec() after a partial match has been
+    changed so that it starts at the first inspected character rather than the
+    first character of the match. This makes a difference only if the pattern
+    starts with a lookbehind assertion or \b or \B (\K is not supported by
+    pcre_dfa_exec()). It's an incompatible change, but it makes the two
+    matching functions compatible, and I think it's the right thing to do.
+
+14. Added a pcredemo man page, created automatically from the pcredemo.c file,
+    so that the demonstration program is easily available in environments where
+    PCRE has not been installed from source.
+
+15. Arranged to add -DPCRE_STATIC to cflags in libpcre.pc, libpcreposix.cp,
+    libpcrecpp.pc and pcre-config when PCRE is not compiled as a shared
+    library.
+
+16. Added REG_UNGREEDY to the pcreposix interface, at the request of a user.
+    It maps to PCRE_UNGREEDY. It is not, of course, POSIX-compatible, but it
+    is not the first non-POSIX option to be added. Clearly some people find
+    these options useful.
+
+17. If a caller to the POSIX matching function regexec() passes a non-zero
+    value for nmatch with a NULL value for pmatch, the value of
+    nmatch is forced to zero.
+
+18. RunGrepTest did not have a test for the availability of the -u option of
+    the diff command, as RunTest does. It now checks in the same way as
+    RunTest, and also checks for the -b option.
+
+19. If an odd number of negated classes containing just a single character
+    interposed, within parentheses, between a forward reference to a named
+    subpattern and the definition of the subpattern, compilation crashed with
+    an internal error, complaining that it could not find the referenced
+    subpattern. An example of a crashing pattern is /(?&A)(([^m])(?<A>))/.
+    [The bug was that it was starting one character too far in when skipping
+    over the character class, thus treating the ] as data rather than
+    terminating the class. This meant it could skip too much.]
+
+20. Added PCRE_NOTEMPTY_ATSTART in order to be able to correctly implement the
+    /g option in pcretest when the pattern contains \K, which makes it possible
+    to have an empty string match not at the start, even when the pattern is
+    anchored. Updated pcretest and pcredemo to use this option.
+
+21. If the maximum number of capturing subpatterns in a recursion was greater
+    than the maximum at the outer level, the higher number was returned, but
+    with unset values at the outer level. The correct (outer level) value is
+    now given.
+
+22. If (*ACCEPT) appeared inside capturing parentheses, previous releases of
+    PCRE did not set those parentheses (unlike Perl). I have now found a way to
+    make it do so. The string so far is captured, making this feature
+    compatible with Perl.
+
+23. The tests have been re-organized, adding tests 11 and 12, to make it
+    possible to check the Perl 5.10 features against Perl 5.10.
+
+24. Perl 5.10 allows subroutine calls in lookbehinds, as long as the subroutine
+    pattern matches a fixed length string. PCRE did not allow this; now it
+    does. Neither allows recursion.
+
+25. I finally figured out how to implement a request to provide the minimum
+    length of subject string that was needed in order to match a given pattern.
+    (It was back references and recursion that I had previously got hung up
+    on.) This code has now been added to pcre_study(); it finds a lower bound
+    to the length of subject needed. It is not necessarily the greatest lower
+    bound, but using it to avoid searching strings that are too short does give
+    some useful speed-ups. The value is available to calling programs via
+    pcre_fullinfo().
+
+26. While implementing 25, I discovered to my embarrassment that pcretest had
+    not been passing the result of pcre_study() to pcre_dfa_exec(), so the
+    study optimizations had never been tested with that matching function.
+    Oops. What is worse, even when it was passed study data, there was a bug in
+    pcre_dfa_exec() that meant it never actually used it. Double oops. There
+    were also very few tests of studied patterns with pcre_dfa_exec().
+
+27. If (?| is used to create subpatterns with duplicate numbers, they are now
+    allowed to have the same name, even if PCRE_DUPNAMES is not set. However,
+    on the other side of the coin, they are no longer allowed to have different
+    names, because these cannot be distinguished in PCRE, and this has caused
+    confusion. (This is a difference from Perl.)
+
+28. When duplicate subpattern names are present (necessarily with different
+    numbers, as required by 27 above), and a test is made by name in a
+    conditional pattern, either for a subpattern having been matched, or for
+    recursion in such a pattern, all the associated numbered subpatterns are
+    tested, and the overall condition is true if the condition is true for any
+    one of them. This is the way Perl works, and is also more like the way
+    testing by number works.
+
+
+Version 7.9 11-Apr-09
+---------------------
+
+1.  When building with support for bzlib/zlib (pcregrep) and/or readline
+    (pcretest), all targets were linked against these libraries. This included
+    libpcre, libpcreposix, and libpcrecpp, even though they do not use these
+    libraries. This caused unwanted dependencies to be created. This problem
+    has been fixed, and now only pcregrep is linked with bzlib/zlib and only
+    pcretest is linked with readline.
+
+2.  The "typedef int BOOL" in pcre_internal.h that was included inside the
+    "#ifndef FALSE" condition by an earlier change (probably 7.8/18) has been
+    moved outside it again, because FALSE and TRUE are already defined in AIX,
+    but BOOL is not.
+
+3.  The pcre_config() function was treating the PCRE_MATCH_LIMIT and
+    PCRE_MATCH_LIMIT_RECURSION values as ints, when they should be long ints.
+
+4.  The pcregrep documentation said spaces were inserted as well as colons (or
+    hyphens) following file names and line numbers when outputting matching
+    lines. This is not true; no spaces are inserted. I have also clarified the
+    wording for the --colour (or --color) option.
+
+5.  In pcregrep, when --colour was used with -o, the list of matching strings
+    was not coloured; this is different to GNU grep, so I have changed it to be
+    the same.
+
+6.  When --colo(u)r was used in pcregrep, only the first matching substring in
+    each matching line was coloured. Now it goes on to look for further matches
+    of any of the test patterns, which is the same behaviour as GNU grep.
+
+7.  A pattern that could match an empty string could cause pcregrep to loop; it
+    doesn't make sense to accept an empty string match in pcregrep, so I have
+    locked it out (using PCRE's PCRE_NOTEMPTY option). By experiment, this
+    seems to be how GNU grep behaves.
+
+8.  The pattern (?(?=.*b)b|^) was incorrectly compiled as "match must be at
+    start or after a newline", because the conditional assertion was not being
+    correctly handled. The rule now is that both the assertion and what follows
+    in the first alternative must satisfy the test.
+
+9.  If auto-callout was enabled in a pattern with a conditional group whose
+    condition was an assertion, PCRE could crash during matching, both with
+    pcre_exec() and pcre_dfa_exec().
+
+10. The PCRE_DOLLAR_ENDONLY option was not working when pcre_dfa_exec() was
+    used for matching.
+
+11. Unicode property support in character classes was not working for
+    characters (bytes) greater than 127 when not in UTF-8 mode.
+
+12. Added the -M command line option to pcretest.
+
+14. Added the non-standard REG_NOTEMPTY option to the POSIX interface.
+
+15. Added the PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE match-time option.
+
+16. Added comments and documentation about mis-use of no_arg in the C++
+    wrapper.
+
+17. Implemented support for UTF-8 encoding in EBCDIC environments, a patch
+    from Martin Jerabek that uses macro names for all relevant character and
+    string constants.
+
+18. Added to pcre_internal.h two configuration checks: (a) If both EBCDIC and
+    SUPPORT_UTF8 are set, give an error; (b) If SUPPORT_UCP is set without
+    SUPPORT_UTF8, define SUPPORT_UTF8. The "configure" script handles both of
+    these, but not everybody uses configure.
+
+19. A conditional group that had only one branch was not being correctly
+    recognized as an item that could match an empty string. This meant that an
+    enclosing group might also not be so recognized, causing infinite looping
+    (and probably a segfault) for patterns such as ^"((?(?=[a])[^"])|b)*"$
+    with the subject "ab", where knowledge that the repeated group can match
+    nothing is needed in order to break the loop.
+
+20. If a pattern that was compiled with callouts was matched using pcre_dfa_
+    exec(), but without supplying a callout function, matching went wrong.
+
+21. If PCRE_ERROR_MATCHLIMIT occurred during a recursion, there was a memory
+    leak if the size of the offset vector was greater than 30. When the vector
+    is smaller, the saved offsets during recursion go onto a local stack
+    vector, but for larger vectors malloc() is used. It was failing to free
+    when the recursion yielded PCRE_ERROR_MATCH_LIMIT (or any other "abnormal"
+    error, in fact).
+
+22. There was a missing #ifdef SUPPORT_UTF8 round one of the variables in the
+    heapframe that is used only when UTF-8 support is enabled. This caused no
+    problem, but was untidy.
+
+23. Steven Van Ingelgem's patch to CMakeLists.txt to change the name
+    CMAKE_BINARY_DIR to PROJECT_BINARY_DIR so that it works when PCRE is
+    included within another project.
+
+24. Steven Van Ingelgem's patches to add more options to the CMake support,
+    slightly modified by me:
+
+      (a) PCRE_BUILD_TESTS can be set OFF not to build the tests, including
+          not building pcregrep.
+
+      (b) PCRE_BUILD_PCREGREP can be see OFF not to build pcregrep, but only
+          if PCRE_BUILD_TESTS is also set OFF, because the tests use pcregrep.
+
+25. Forward references, both numeric and by name, in patterns that made use of
+    duplicate group numbers, could behave incorrectly or give incorrect errors,
+    because when scanning forward to find the reference group, PCRE was not
+    taking into account the duplicate group numbers. A pattern such as
+    ^X(?3)(a)(?|(b)|(q))(Y) is an example.
+
+26. Changed a few more instances of "const unsigned char *" to USPTR, making
+    the feature of a custom pointer more persuasive (as requested by a user).
+
+27. Wrapped the definitions of fileno and isatty for Windows, which appear in
+    pcretest.c, inside #ifndefs, because it seems they are sometimes already
+    pre-defined.
+
+28. Added support for (*UTF8) at the start of a pattern.
+
+29. Arrange for flags added by the "release type" setting in CMake to be shown
+    in the configuration summary.
+
+
+Version 7.8 05-Sep-08
+---------------------
+
+1.  Replaced UCP searching code with optimized version as implemented for Ad
+    Muncher (http://www.admuncher.com/) by Peter Kankowski. This uses a two-
+    stage table and inline lookup instead of a function, giving speed ups of 2
+    to 5 times on some simple patterns that I tested. Permission was given to
+    distribute the MultiStage2.py script that generates the tables (it's not in
+    the tarball, but is in the Subversion repository).
+
+2.  Updated the Unicode datatables to Unicode 5.1.0. This adds yet more
+    scripts.
+
+3.  Change 12 for 7.7 introduced a bug in pcre_study() when a pattern contained
+    a group with a zero qualifier. The result of the study could be incorrect,
+    or the function might crash, depending on the pattern.
+
+4.  Caseless matching was not working for non-ASCII characters in back
+    references. For example, /(\x{de})\1/8i was not matching \x{de}\x{fe}.
+    It now works when Unicode Property Support is available.
+
+5.  In pcretest, an escape such as \x{de} in the data was always generating
+    a UTF-8 string, even in non-UTF-8 mode. Now it generates a single byte in
+    non-UTF-8 mode. If the value is greater than 255, it gives a warning about
+    truncation.
+
+6.  Minor bugfix in pcrecpp.cc (change "" == ... to NULL == ...).
+
+7.  Added two (int) casts to pcregrep when printing the difference of two
+    pointers, in case they are 64-bit values.
+
+8.  Added comments about Mac OS X stack usage to the pcrestack man page and to
+    test 2 if it fails.
+
+9.  Added PCRE_CALL_CONVENTION just before the names of all exported functions,
+    and a #define of that name to empty if it is not externally set. This is to
+    allow users of MSVC to set it if necessary.
+
+10. The PCRE_EXP_DEFN macro which precedes exported functions was missing from
+    the convenience functions in the pcre_get.c source file.
+
+11. An option change at the start of a pattern that had top-level alternatives
+    could cause overwriting and/or a crash. This command provoked a crash in
+    some environments:
+
+      printf "/(?i)[\xc3\xa9\xc3\xbd]|[\xc3\xa9\xc3\xbdA]/8\n" | pcretest
+
+    This potential security problem was recorded as CVE-2008-2371.
+
+12. For a pattern where the match had to start at the beginning or immediately
+    after a newline (e.g /.*anything/ without the DOTALL flag), pcre_exec() and
+    pcre_dfa_exec() could read past the end of the passed subject if there was
+    no match. To help with detecting such bugs (e.g. with valgrind), I modified
+    pcretest so that it places the subject at the end of its malloc-ed buffer.
+
+13. The change to pcretest in 12 above threw up a couple more cases when pcre_
+    exec() might read past the end of the data buffer in UTF-8 mode.
+
+14. A similar bug to 7.3/2 existed when the PCRE_FIRSTLINE option was set and
+    the data contained the byte 0x85 as part of a UTF-8 character within its
+    first line. This applied both to normal and DFA matching.
+
+15. Lazy qualifiers were not working in some cases in UTF-8 mode. For example,
+    /^[^d]*?$/8 failed to match "abc".
+
+16. Added a missing copyright notice to pcrecpp_internal.h.
+
+17. Make it more clear in the documentation that values returned from
+    pcre_exec() in ovector are byte offsets, not character counts.
+
+18. Tidied a few places to stop certain compilers from issuing warnings.
+
+19. Updated the Virtual Pascal + BCC files to compile the latest v7.7, as
+    supplied by Stefan Weber. I made a further small update for 7.8 because
+    there is a change of source arrangements: the pcre_searchfuncs.c module is
+    replaced by pcre_ucd.c.
+
+
+Version 7.7 07-May-08
+---------------------
+
+1.  Applied Craig's patch to sort out a long long problem: "If we can't convert
+    a string to a long long, pretend we don't even have a long long." This is
+    done by checking for the strtoq, strtoll, and _strtoi64 functions.
+
+2.  Applied Craig's patch to pcrecpp.cc to restore ABI compatibility with
+    pre-7.6 versions, which defined a global no_arg variable instead of putting
+    it in the RE class. (See also #8 below.)
+
+3.  Remove a line of dead code, identified by coverity and reported by Nuno
+    Lopes.
+
+4.  Fixed two related pcregrep bugs involving -r with --include or --exclude:
+
+    (1) The include/exclude patterns were being applied to the whole pathnames
+        of files, instead of just to the final components.
+
+    (2) If there was more than one level of directory, the subdirectories were
+        skipped unless they satisfied the include/exclude conditions. This is
+        inconsistent with GNU grep (and could even be seen as contrary to the
+        pcregrep specification - which I improved to make it absolutely clear).
+        The action now is always to scan all levels of directory, and just
+        apply the include/exclude patterns to regular files.
+
+5.  Added the --include_dir and --exclude_dir patterns to pcregrep, and used
+    --exclude_dir in the tests to avoid scanning .svn directories.
+
+6.  Applied Craig's patch to the QuoteMeta function so that it escapes the
+    NUL character as backslash + 0 rather than backslash + NUL, because PCRE
+    doesn't support NULs in patterns.
+
+7.  Added some missing "const"s to declarations of static tables in
+    pcre_compile.c and pcre_dfa_exec.c.
+
+8.  Applied Craig's patch to pcrecpp.cc to fix a problem in OS X that was
+    caused by fix #2  above. (Subsequently also a second patch to fix the
+    first patch. And a third patch - this was a messy problem.)
+
+9.  Applied Craig's patch to remove the use of push_back().
+
+10. Applied Alan Lehotsky's patch to add REG_STARTEND support to the POSIX
+    matching function regexec().
+
+11. Added support for the Oniguruma syntax \g<name>, \g<n>, \g'name', \g'n',
+    which, however, unlike Perl's \g{...}, are subroutine calls, not back
+    references. PCRE supports relative numbers with this syntax (I don't think
+    Oniguruma does).
+
+12. Previously, a group with a zero repeat such as (...){0} was completely
+    omitted from the compiled regex. However, this means that if the group
+    was called as a subroutine from elsewhere in the pattern, things went wrong
+    (an internal error was given). Such groups are now left in the compiled
+    pattern, with a new opcode that causes them to be skipped at execution
+    time.
+
+13. Added the PCRE_JAVASCRIPT_COMPAT option. This makes the following changes
+    to the way PCRE behaves:
+
+    (a) A lone ] character is dis-allowed (Perl treats it as data).
+
+    (b) A back reference to an unmatched subpattern matches an empty string
+        (Perl fails the current match path).
+
+    (c) A data ] in a character class must be notated as \] because if the
+        first data character in a class is ], it defines an empty class. (In
+        Perl it is not possible to have an empty class.) The empty class []
+        never matches; it forces failure and is equivalent to (*FAIL) or (?!).
+        The negative empty class [^] matches any one character, independently
+        of the DOTALL setting.
+
+14. A pattern such as /(?2)[]a()b](abc)/ which had a forward reference to a
+    non-existent subpattern following a character class starting with ']' and
+    containing () gave an internal compiling error instead of "reference to
+    non-existent subpattern". Fortunately, when the pattern did exist, the
+    compiled code was correct. (When scanning forwards to check for the
+    existencd of the subpattern, it was treating the data ']' as terminating
+    the class, so got the count wrong. When actually compiling, the reference
+    was subsequently set up correctly.)
+
+15. The "always fail" assertion (?!) is optimzed to (*FAIL) by pcre_compile;
+    it was being rejected as not supported by pcre_dfa_exec(), even though
+    other assertions are supported. I have made pcre_dfa_exec() support
+    (*FAIL).
+
+16. The implementation of 13c above involved the invention of a new opcode,
+    OP_ALLANY, which is like OP_ANY but doesn't check the /s flag. Since /s
+    cannot be changed at match time, I realized I could make a small
+    improvement to matching performance by compiling OP_ALLANY instead of
+    OP_ANY for "." when DOTALL was set, and then removing the runtime tests
+    on the OP_ANY path.
+
+17. Compiling pcretest on Windows with readline support failed without the
+    following two fixes: (1) Make the unistd.h include conditional on
+    HAVE_UNISTD_H; (2) #define isatty and fileno as _isatty and _fileno.
+
+18. Changed CMakeLists.txt and cmake/FindReadline.cmake to arrange for the
+    ncurses library to be included for pcretest when ReadLine support is
+    requested, but also to allow for it to be overridden. This patch came from
+    Daniel Bergström.
+
+19. There was a typo in the file ucpinternal.h where f0_rangeflag was defined
+    as 0x00f00000 instead of 0x00800000. Luckily, this would not have caused
+    any errors with the current Unicode tables. Thanks to Peter Kankowski for
+    spotting this.
+
+
+Version 7.6 28-Jan-08
+---------------------
+
+1.  A character class containing a very large number of characters with
+    codepoints greater than 255 (in UTF-8 mode, of course) caused a buffer
+    overflow.
+
+2.  Patch to cut out the "long long" test in pcrecpp_unittest when
+    HAVE_LONG_LONG is not defined.
+
+3.  Applied Christian Ehrlicher's patch to update the CMake build files to
+    bring them up to date and include new features. This patch includes:
+
+    - Fixed PH's badly added libz and libbz2 support.
+    - Fixed a problem with static linking.
+    - Added pcredemo. [But later removed - see 7 below.]
+    - Fixed dftables problem and added an option.
+    - Added a number of HAVE_XXX tests, including HAVE_WINDOWS_H and
+        HAVE_LONG_LONG.
+    - Added readline support for pcretest.
+    - Added an listing of the option settings after cmake has run.
+
+4.  A user submitted a patch to Makefile that makes it easy to create
+    "pcre.dll" under mingw when using Configure/Make. I added stuff to
+    Makefile.am that cause it to include this special target, without
+    affecting anything else. Note that the same mingw target plus all
+    the other distribution libraries and programs are now supported
+    when configuring with CMake (see 6 below) instead of with
+    Configure/Make.
+
+5.  Applied Craig's patch that moves no_arg into the RE class in the C++ code.
+    This is an attempt to solve the reported problem "pcrecpp::no_arg is not
+    exported in the Windows port". It has not yet been confirmed that the patch
+    solves the problem, but it does no harm.
+
+6.  Applied Sheri's patch to CMakeLists.txt to add NON_STANDARD_LIB_PREFIX and
+    NON_STANDARD_LIB_SUFFIX for dll names built with mingw when configured
+    with CMake, and also correct the comment about stack recursion.
+
+7.  Remove the automatic building of pcredemo from the ./configure system and
+    from CMakeLists.txt. The whole idea of pcredemo.c is that it is an example
+    of a program that users should build themselves after PCRE is installed, so
+    building it automatically is not really right. What is more, it gave
+    trouble in some build environments.
+
+8.  Further tidies to CMakeLists.txt from Sheri and Christian.
+
+
+Version 7.5 10-Jan-08
+---------------------
+
+1.  Applied a patch from Craig: "This patch makes it possible to 'ignore'
+    values in parens when parsing an RE using the C++ wrapper."
+
+2.  Negative specials like \S did not work in character classes in UTF-8 mode.
+    Characters greater than 255 were excluded from the class instead of being
+    included.
+
+3.  The same bug as (2) above applied to negated POSIX classes such as
+    [:^space:].
+
+4.  PCRECPP_STATIC was referenced in pcrecpp_internal.h, but nowhere was it
+    defined or documented. It seems to have been a typo for PCRE_STATIC, so
+    I have changed it.
+
+5.  The construct (?&) was not diagnosed as a syntax error (it referenced the
+    first named subpattern) and a construct such as (?&a) would reference the
+    first named subpattern whose name started with "a" (in other words, the
+    length check was missing). Both these problems are fixed. "Subpattern name
+    expected" is now given for (?&) (a zero-length name), and this patch also
+    makes it give the same error for \k'' (previously it complained that that
+    was a reference to a non-existent subpattern).
+
+6.  The erroneous patterns (?+-a) and (?-+a) give different error messages;
+    this is right because (?- can be followed by option settings as well as by
+    digits. I have, however, made the messages clearer.
+
+7.  Patterns such as (?(1)a|b) (a pattern that contains fewer subpatterns
+    than the number used in the conditional) now cause a compile-time error.
+    This is actually not compatible with Perl, which accepts such patterns, but
+    treats the conditional as always being FALSE (as PCRE used to), but it
+    seems to me that giving a diagnostic is better.
+
+8.  Change "alphameric" to the more common word "alphanumeric" in comments
+    and messages.
+
+9.  Fix two occurrences of "backslash" in comments that should have been
+    "backspace".
+
+10. Remove two redundant lines of code that can never be obeyed (their function
+    was moved elsewhere).
+
+11. The program that makes PCRE's Unicode character property table had a bug
+    which caused it to generate incorrect table entries for sequences of
+    characters that have the same character type, but are in different scripts.
+    It amalgamated them into a single range, with the script of the first of
+    them. In other words, some characters were in the wrong script. There were
+    thirteen such cases, affecting characters in the following ranges:
+
+      U+002b0 - U+002c1
+      U+0060c - U+0060d
+      U+0061e - U+00612
+      U+0064b - U+0065e
+      U+0074d - U+0076d
+      U+01800 - U+01805
+      U+01d00 - U+01d77
+      U+01d9b - U+01dbf
+      U+0200b - U+0200f
+      U+030fc - U+030fe
+      U+03260 - U+0327f
+      U+0fb46 - U+0fbb1
+      U+10450 - U+1049d
+
+12. The -o option (show only the matching part of a line) for pcregrep was not
+    compatible with GNU grep in that, if there was more than one match in a
+    line, it showed only the first of them. It now behaves in the same way as
+    GNU grep.
+
+13. If the -o and -v options were combined for pcregrep, it printed a blank
+    line for every non-matching line. GNU grep prints nothing, and pcregrep now
+    does the same. The return code can be used to tell if there were any
+    non-matching lines.
+
+14. Added --file-offsets and --line-offsets to pcregrep.
+
+15. The pattern (?=something)(?R) was not being diagnosed as a potentially
+    infinitely looping recursion. The bug was that positive lookaheads were not
+    being skipped when checking for a possible empty match (negative lookaheads
+    and both kinds of lookbehind were skipped).
+
+16. Fixed two typos in the Windows-only code in pcregrep.c, and moved the
+    inclusion of <windows.h> to before rather than after the definition of
+    INVALID_FILE_ATTRIBUTES (patch from David Byron).
+
+17. Specifying a possessive quantifier with a specific limit for a Unicode
+    character property caused pcre_compile() to compile bad code, which led at
+    runtime to PCRE_ERROR_INTERNAL (-14). Examples of patterns that caused this
+    are: /\p{Zl}{2,3}+/8 and /\p{Cc}{2}+/8. It was the possessive "+" that
+    caused the error; without that there was no problem.
+
+18. Added --enable-pcregrep-libz and --enable-pcregrep-libbz2.
+
+19. Added --enable-pcretest-libreadline.
+
+20. In pcrecpp.cc, the variable 'count' was incremented twice in
+    RE::GlobalReplace(). As a result, the number of replacements returned was
+    double what it should be. I removed one of the increments, but Craig sent a
+    later patch that removed the other one (the right fix) and added unit tests
+    that check the return values (which was not done before).
+
+21. Several CMake things:
+
+    (1) Arranged that, when cmake is used on Unix, the libraries end up with
+        the names libpcre and libpcreposix, not just pcre and pcreposix.
+
+    (2) The above change means that pcretest and pcregrep are now correctly
+        linked with the newly-built libraries, not previously installed ones.
+
+    (3) Added PCRE_SUPPORT_LIBREADLINE, PCRE_SUPPORT_LIBZ, PCRE_SUPPORT_LIBBZ2.
+
+22. In UTF-8 mode, with newline set to "any", a pattern such as .*a.*=.b.*
+    crashed when matching a string such as a\x{2029}b (note that \x{2029} is a
+    UTF-8 newline character). The key issue is that the pattern starts .*;
+    this means that the match must be either at the beginning, or after a
+    newline. The bug was in the code for advancing after a failed match and
+    checking that the new position followed a newline. It was not taking
+    account of UTF-8 characters correctly.
+
+23. PCRE was behaving differently from Perl in the way it recognized POSIX
+    character classes. PCRE was not treating the sequence [:...:] as a
+    character class unless the ... were all letters. Perl, however, seems to
+    allow any characters between [: and :], though of course it rejects as
+    unknown any "names" that contain non-letters, because all the known class
+    names consist only of letters. Thus, Perl gives an error for [[:1234:]],
+    for example, whereas PCRE did not - it did not recognize a POSIX character
+    class. This seemed a bit dangerous, so the code has been changed to be
+    closer to Perl. The behaviour is not identical to Perl, because PCRE will
+    diagnose an unknown class for, for example, [[:l\ower:]] where Perl will
+    treat it as [[:lower:]]. However, PCRE does now give "unknown" errors where
+    Perl does, and where it didn't before.
+
+24. Rewrite so as to remove the single use of %n from pcregrep because in some
+    Windows environments %n is disabled by default.
+
+
 Version 7.4 21-Sep-07
 ---------------------
 
@@ -72,6 +1418,9 @@
     and instead check for _strtoi64 explicitly, and avoid the use of snprintf()
     entirely. This removes changes made in 7 above.
 
+17. The CMake files have been updated, and there is now more information about
+    building with CMake in the NON-UNIX-USE document.
+
 
 Version 7.3 28-Aug-07
 ---------------------